A brief personal history of cancer immunotherapy at Stanford: if these walls could talk….

abstract：:In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of immune, alloimmune and autoimmune processes in the pathogenesis of spontaneous preterm birth and recurrent pregnancy loss. The association between an inflammatory response and preterm labor has been established. Indeed, many women suffering from preterm...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Tsur A,Hughes GC,Shoenfeld Y,Carp H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact hypersensitivity (CHS) is a T cell-mediated immune response to cutaneous sensitization and subsequent challenge with haptens such as dinitrofluorobenzene and oxazolone. Many aspects concerning the development and regulation of CHS remain unknown. Using CHS as a model of T cell-mediated immune responses to anti...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Gorbachev AV,Fairchild RL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and organ transplantation are limited by donor and host-mediated immune responses to allo-antigens. Application of these therapies is limited by the toxicity of preparative and post-transplant immunosuppressive regimens and a shortage of appropriate HLA-matched dono...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Hacke K,Falahati R,Flebbe-Rehwaldt L,Kasahara N,Gaensler KM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human mayor histocompatibility complex class I molecule HLA-A2 preferentially binds peptides that contain Leu at P2 and Val or Leu at the C terminus. The other amino acids in the peptide also contribute to binding positively or negatively. It is possible to estimate the binding stability of HLA-A2 complexes contai...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Parker KC,Shields M,DiBrino M,Brooks A,Coligan JE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of our work is to understand, from the molecular to the organismal level, the principles that drive and sustain lifelong infection by viruses. These infectious agents live in a dynamic equilibrium (homeostasis) with their hosts in which both immune and nonimmune pathways contribute to viral homeostasis. Disru...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Ghazal P,García-Ramírez J,González-Armas JC,Kurz S,Angulo A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now apparent that naïve peripheral T cells are a dynamic population where active processes prevent inappropriate activation while supporting survival. The process of thymic education makes naïve peripheral T cells dependent on interactions with self-MHC for survival. However, as these signals can potentially res...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Modiano JF,Johnson LD,Bellgrau D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During thymocyte development bone marrow-derived precursors in the thymus undergo a series of differentiation steps to produce self-tolerant, mature T lymphocytes. The thymus contains two functionally distinct anatomical compartments, consisting of a centrally located medulla surrounded by the thymic cortex. These com...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Alexandropoulos K,Danzl NM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are effector cells of the innate immune system that can lyse target cells without prior sensitization and have an important role in host defense to pathogens and transformed cells. A balance between negative and positive signals transmitted via germ line-encoded inhibitory and activating rece...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Hadad U,Martinez O,Krams SM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory is a hallmark of adaptive immunity, a defense mechanism endowed to vertebrates during evolution. However, an autoimmune pathogenic role of memory lymphocytes is also emerging with accumulating evidence, despite reasonable skepticism on their existence in a chronic setting of autoimmune damage. It ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Devarajan P,Chen Z

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the biologic and molecular genetic underpinnings of multiple myeloma (MM) have identified the pleiotropic, pro-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-6 (IL-6), as a factor crucial to the growth, proliferation and survival of myeloma cells. IL-6 is also a potent stimulator of osteoclastogenesis and a sculptor of...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Rosean TR,Tompkins VS,Tricot G,Holman CJ,Olivier AK,Zhan F,Janz S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that T cells have the potential to modulate hematopoietic response in different ways. More recently, the importance of interleukin (IL)-17-secreting Th17 cells in T-cell-mediated regulation of hematopoiesis was indicated by the line of evidence that IL-17 links T-cell function and hematopoiesis ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Krstic A,Mojsilovic S,Jovcic G,Bugarski D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal exotoxins, staphylococcal enterotoxins A-E (SEA-SEE), and toxic shock syndrome toxin- (TSST-1) are potent activators of the immune system and cause a variety of diseases in humans, ranging from food poisoning to shock. These toxins are called superantigens because of their ability to polyclonally activa...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Krakauer T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indigenous oral microflora and the host are normally in a state of equilibrium; however, the introduction of a pathogen can result in innate and adaptive immune responses that either contribute to the development of the disease or lead to host immunity. The interactions between the microorganisms and the host are ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Michalek SM,Katz J,Childers NK,Martin M,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were developed as a way of inducing immune suppression of T cells. More recent studies have indicated that anti-CD3 MAbs can affect immune responses by inducing immune regulation. We recently reported that a single course of treatment with a non-FcR binding anti-CD3 MAb, hOKT3gamm...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Herold KC,Taylor L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells perceive and respond to microbes, both pathogenic and commensal, by activation of signaling cascades such as the NF-kappaB pathway. Induction of such pathways leads to the upregulation of a program of gene expression that mediates pro-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effector proteins. This host respon...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Neish AS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologies attributable to fungal infections represent a growing concern in both developed and developing countries. Initially discovered as opportunistic pathogens of immunocompromised hosts, fungi such as Candida albicans are now being placed at the centre of a more complex and dynamic picture in which the outcome ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Cottier F,Pavelka N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key role of T cells in hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination and the ability of dendritic cells (DCs) to induce antiviral T cell responses suggest that DC vaccines could be a promising approach in the treatment of chronic HCV infection. The aim of our study was to evaluate, whether immunotherapy with DCs is safe and...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Chernykh E,Leplina O,Oleynik E,Tikhonova M,Tyrinova T,Starostina N,Ostanin A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulating PI3K at different stages of dendritic cells (DC) generation could be a novel means to balance the generation of immunosuppressive versus immunostimulatory DC. We show that PI3K inhibition during mouse DC generation in vitro results in cells that are potently immunosuppressive and characteristic of CD8alpha-...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Di Caro V,D'Anneo A,Phillips B,Engman C,Harnaha J,Trucco M,Giannoukakis N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD62L governs the circulation of CD8(+) T cells between lymph nodes and peripheral tissues, whereby the expression of CD62L by CD8(+) T cells promotes their recirculation through lymph nodes. As such, CD62L participates in the fate of adoptively transferred CD8(+) T cells and may control their effectiveness for cancer...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Díaz-Montero CM,Zidan AA,Pallin MF,Anagnostopoulos V,Salem ML,Wieder E,Komanduri K,Montero AJ,Lichtenheld MG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old man developed severe abdominal pain 1 week after being vaccinated with the first dose of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil®). Despite ongoing symptoms of nausea and pain, he received the second dose of the vaccine. Only 10 days later, laboratory results revealed significantly elev...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Bizjak M,Bruck O,Praprotnik S,Dahan S,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) serocomplex of viruses, genus Flavivirus, includes a number of important human pathogens that cause serious neurological illnesses and hemorrhagic fevers. These viruses pose a significant public health problem due to high rates of morbidity and mortality, their emergence to new geogra...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Robertson SJ,Mitzel DN,Taylor RT,Best SM,Bloom ME

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory natural killer group 2 member D (NKG2D) lymphocyte receptor, initially discovered and expressed mostly on natural killer (NK) cells, T cells and natural killer T cells, can promote tumor immune surveillance. However, with increasing tumor grade, tumors themselves express NKG2D to self-stimulate oncogen...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Tang M,Acheampong DO,Wang Y,Xie W,Wang M,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinction that in areas where helminthic infections are common, autoimmune diseases are less prevalent, led to the investigation of immune modulatory properties of helminths and their derivatives. Such are phosphorylcholine (PC) moieties which are a component of secreted products of helminths. PC has been broadl...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Segal Y,Blank M,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective host response against viral infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is the principal factor dictating the outcome of infection. It is the responsibility of the immune response to contain and control viral replication. Paradoxically, it is the immune response that may also contribute to the developme...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Liu MT,Lane TE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus) and other human DNA viruses are associated with autoimmune syndromes in epidemiologic studies. In this work, immunoglobulin G response to EBV-encoded proteins which share regions with human immune response proteins from the human host including ZEBRA (BZLF-1 encoded protein), BALF-2 recombinas...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Dreyfus DH,Farina A,Farina GA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant T helper-2 (Th2) responses play a critical role in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases. The underlying mechanism is to be further investigated. It is reported that soluble CD83 (sCD83) has immune-regulatory effects. This study aims to investigate the role of sCD83 in the regulation of Th2 polarization. Bloo...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Song W,Li H,Jia B,Wang Z,Liu Q,Yang G,Li X

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research on hematological malignancies has shown that malignant cells often co-opt physiological pathways to promote their growth and development. Bone marrow homeostasis requires a fine balance between cellular differentiation and self-renewal; cell survival and apoptosis; and cellular proliferation and senesc...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Chung E,Kondo M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab is a chimeric monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody and was the first monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma. It has revolutionized the treatment of patients with CD20-positive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and CLL. Rituximab is currently being ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Riaz W,Hernandez-Ilizaliturri FJ,Czuczman MS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-penetrating peptides (CPP) or membrane-translocating peptides such as penetratin from Antennapedia homeodomain or TAT from human immunodeficiency virus are useful vectors for the delivery of protein antigens or their cytotoxic (Tc) or helper (Th) T cell epitopes to antigen-presenting cells. Mice immunized with CP...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Pouniotis D,Tang CK,Apostolopoulos V,Pietersz G

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The participation of inflammatory cells in atherosclerosis is a well-known process that involves numerous molecules including chemotactic cytokines (chemokines) for their entry into the vessel wall. Although the C-C chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and its receptor, CCR2, have been implicated in atheroscle...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Boisvert WA,Curtiss LK,Terkeltaub RA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00